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BGR Government Affairs
(for Bahrain)
Hired: June 2018
2018 fees: $470,000
NEW Supplemental
(Dec. 1, 2019 – May 31, 2020)
Bahrain paid BGR Government Affairs $462,000 and reported $231,000 in expenses in the six-month period ending May 31. The firm reported meetings with staffers in four Senate offices in December and three House offices in February.
APCO Worldwide
(for Bahrain Economic Development Board)
Hired: Oct. 2018
2018 fees and expenses: $22,000
NEW Informational materials
APCO Worldwide distributed a press release on how the World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Bahrain Economic Development Board (an APCO client), “has launched a new Roadmap for Cross-Border Data Flows to help drive global tech-based collaboration.”
Miller & Chevalier
(for Bahrain)
Hired: March 2018
2018 fees: $99,000
NEW Supplemental
(Oct. 1, 2019 – March 31, 2020)
Miller and Chevalier provided no services to Bahrain in the six-month period ending March 31. The firm did not receive any fees from the country in that period.
DLA Piper
(for Bahrain)
Hired: 2014
2018 fees: $258,000
NEW Supplemental
(Sept. 1, 2019 – Feb. 29, 2020)
DLA Piper reported no activity or fees for Bahrain in the six-month period ending Feb. 29.
Rokk Solutions
(for Bahrain)
Hired: May 2019
NEW Amendment
Rokk Solutions amended its six-month filing for the period ending Sept. 30, 2019, to note that it was paid $110,000 by Richard Attias and Associates for public relations and consulting services around the "Peace to Prosperity" economic workshop held in Manama, Bahrain in June 2019, which sought to build support for the Donald Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan. Rokk’s contract with Attias, a Dubai-based global communications advisory firm, was terminated July 18, 2019.
Sonoran Policy Group
(for Bahrain)
Hired: Feb. 2018
2018 fees: $500,000
NEW Supplemental
(July 1, 2019 – Dec. 31, 2019)
Fees: $55,000
Sonoran Policy Group was paid $55,000 by Bahrain, according to the firm’s lobbying filing for the second half of 2019. The firm met with Reps. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., and Jason Crow, D-Colo., on behalf of Bahrain in July and September (Sonoran’s contract with the Bahraini Embassy in Washington was terminated Oct. 5). Lobbyist Anne Ekern left the firm Oct. 20, leaving founder Robert Stryk and CEO Christian Bourge as the firm’s only two foreign agents.